by Gilles Frydman | Apr 17, 2009
It couldn’t have been published at a better time! The economist has a new special report on health care and technology. It states: “The convergence of biology and engineering is turning health care into an information industry. That will be disruptive...
by Gilles Frydman | Apr 3, 2009
Amy Marcus, in today’s WSJ, wrote a powerful article about a mom moving medical mountains to help her twin daughters survive a rare and deadly disease. Entitled “A Mom Brokers Treatment for Her Twins’ Fatal Illness. Bucking Scientific Convention,...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 23, 2009
This is the third post in the unfortunate series about conflicts of interest. You must be kiddin’! That’s all Scott Reuben, MD, the doctor Scientific American calls “a medical Madoff”, had to say after putting the last two handful of nails into...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 17, 2009
In our continuous series about undeclared conflicts of interest comes a great blog post from the Wall Street Journal. In it JAMA’s editor in chief, Catherine DeAngelis, M.D, interviewed about a certain Jonathan Leo, had these choice words to describe him:...
by Gilles Frydman | Mar 12, 2009
Cross-posted from my own blog. Truth be told, at present, the activities of “La Cosa Nostra” are more transparent that what goes on in the health care system. The only certainty I have, as an individual trying to figure out what is not wrong with the...
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